I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Whenever I see pointless use of special effects, I reach for something else. — Ken Stott Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I personally think a fight scene is the most cinematic thing you can witness because all the elements of filmmaking come together,… — Scott Adkins Copy Share Image
Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs. If you're a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
When the Reformation became established, one of the things that was a question between Catholicism and the Reformation traditions was whether there… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Danny Boyle has been a huge, has had a huge effect on me. His movies, early movies like Trainspotting and those movies.… — Fredrik Bond Copy Share Image
An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I give culture this meaning: exercise of thought, acquisition of general ideas, habit of connecting causes and effects ... I believe that… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
If you want to have more, you have to become more. For things to change, you have to change. For things to… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
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